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Multi-photon Intracellular Sodium Imaging Combined with UV-mediated Focal Uncaging of Glutamate in CA1 Pyramidal Neurons
Published on: October 8, 2014
Photolabile glutamate protecting group with high one- and two-photon uncaging efficiencies
Sylvestre Gug1, Sébastien Charon, Alexandre Specht
1Institut Gilbert Laustriat, Pharmacologie et Physicochimie, Faculté de Pharmacie, 74 route du Rhin, 67401 Illkirch, France.
Abstract:
A pi-extended [2-(2-nitrophenyl)propoxy]carbonyl (NPPOC) derivative has been prepared as an efficient UV and near-IR photolabile protecting group for glutamate. This glutamate cage compound exhibits efficient photorelease upon one-photon excitation (epsilonPhi=990 M(-1) cm(-1) at 315 nm). In addition, it also shows efficient photorelease in activation of glutamate receptors in electrophysiological recordings. Combined with a high two-photon uncaging cross-section (deltaPhi=0.45 GM at 800 nm), its overall properties make this new cage-3-(2-propyl)-4'-methoxy-4-nitrobiphenyl (PMNB)-for glutamate a very promising tool for two-photon neuronal studies.
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